| 单词 | at souse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (the) souse 1. The act, on the part of a bird, of rising from the ground, as giving the hawk an opportunity to strike. Only in at (the) souse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > flight > [noun] > rising from ground sourcec1384 at souse1486 mount1486 launch1835–6 dread1965 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking d j b Iff youre hawke nym the fowle a lofte: ye shall say she toke it at the mounte or at the souce. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 127 The Sparowhawkes do vse to kill the fowle at the Sowrce or Souse, as the Goshawkes do, whiche nature hathe taught them. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 20 The fowle noe soener is putt of from the ryver for the servinge of her, but præsentlie shee falleth and killeth her praie at sowce. 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xiv. 49 That will cause her to..master them, as it were, at the sowce, within a short space, being no way able in that season to make wing, to hold out before such a Hawke. a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbb4/1 Her feares creeping upon her Dead as a fowle at souse, she'll sinke. < as lemmas |
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